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Originally Posted by icytailmark
i personally would love to see an aussie astronaut on the Mars team!!
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Will never happen..Australia spends more money trying to put a gold medal around the neck of Olympic hopefulls than on Scientific ventures. We had a promising Space program operating from Woomera but we allowed it to erode away. The closest thing we had to an Aussie Astronaut was Scully Powers and Andy Thomas and even these two prominent figures could convince the government to invest in a space program.
China being the first on Mars would be the worst outcome because their motives will be self serving...just my 2 cents worth.